TED Talk on the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS), presented by TED Fellow, Marcin Jakubowski, in Long Beach, California, February 28, 2011. Discusses the potential of open source, distributive economics - as embodied in the GVCS civilization starter kit.

Marcin Jakubowski left a career in nuclear fusion with an ambitious plan to hack the farm. He’s re-engineering 40 basic tools so that anyone can build their own equipment and start farming for themselves.

Marcin Jakubowski left a career in nuclear fusion with an ambitious plan to hack the farm. He’s re-engineering 40 basic tools so that anyone can build their own equipment and start farming for themselves.

Welcome to the world of Open Source Ecology (OSE) and the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS), also known as the Resilient Community Construction Set. See openfarmtech.org/​weblog/​2010/​10/​global-village-construction-set-gvcs-in-2-minutes/​ for the corresponding update. We used this in our Buckminster Fuller Challenge application. Pass this on to your friends, and encourage them to subscribe to the True Fans - openfarmtech.org/​index.php?title=True_Fans . We are also going on OSE Tour USA in 2011.

Hollywood movie producer Isaiah Saxon who made the video "Wanderlust" for Björk - is an OSE True Fan and has made a 2 minute explainer video on the 'GVCS' - Global Village Construction Set. The video gets the GVCS message across in a short and very concise way. Pass this on to your friends, and encourage them to subscribe to the True Fans - http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/True_Fans. The GVCS has since become one of the best ideas of 2011 - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/19/wiki-diy-civilization_n_1157895.html?1324310724